COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 8 February 1918, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

TARATAHI SALE. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Masterton, report having held a sale in their Taa-atahi yards ;on Thursday, 7th instant ,when there was a fair attendance and a full yarding of both sheep and cattle, far in excess of the advertised numbers, coining forward. Competition was fairly keen, and a good clearance was made at the following prices:—Sheep: Six-tooth ewes 29s 9d, 2 and 4-tooth ewes and wethers 24s Bd, four-year ewes 22s os to 23s Nd, mixed aged owes 21s sd, small 2-tooth wethers 18s Bd, f.m. ewes 10s, 10s 6d to 17s, good rape lambs ISs to 19s Id. medium rape Jambs Ms to .Ms, cull lambs 6s 4d to 10s. Cattle: Forward bidlocks £ls to £l> «s, springing heifers £9 2s (id, forward cows £9 12s 6d, store cows £6, £6 5e to £6 17s, 18-month steers £5 ss. £"i 8s to £7, yearling steers £1 It-'* to £5, heifers' in calf £ 410s In Co Ss, woaners £%. CLEARING SALIC. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. I invited, report having held a Hearing sale on account of the- trustees of the estate of the late W .Perry .at Upper Plain, on Thursday. There was not a large attendance of buyera, and the sale was rather a dragging one. The following are some of the prices realised:—-Four-tooth wethers Ms 7d, mixed aged ewes 19s, fat heifers £ll 10s, draught horses £ll to JUIS, D.F. plough £l3 los, disc harrows £B. set scales £7 10s, potato plough £4, drill £l7, Tea per and binder £1.3 ids, dray «-£lt) 10s. Harness, sundries, etc., sold at lull clearing sale rates.